talk at Jewish Museum, New York, for New York: Capital of Photographyexhibition, curated by Max Kozloff. Soames Bantry dies on October 9. commercial studio at 156 Fifth Avenue due to financial difficulties but continues doing commercial fashion work, largely for advertising campaigns. exhibited at Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland; Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh; Gump’s department store, San Francisco; and Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh. exhibition Saul Leiter: Gouaches and Color Slides at Tanager Gallery. Around this time Leiter gives a slide talk about his color work at the Club, an East Village art space.

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I have enjoy some of Saul Leiter's work and this is the second time I have taken a stab at this book. Saul Leiter says, “everything is a photograph.” This quote rung true for me as I was out taking my own photographs. Everything I looked at on the streets of Winsor, Canada, I thought could become an abstract photograph either because of the shapes, lines, or color. For example, the close-up photos I took of the bridge remind me of Leiter’s abstract photos as the color blue lays against the bright blue sky and the lines all intertwine. It is almost hard to tell what it is at first glance, something I learned Leiter’s photographs do as well. By allowing myself to take photos of things I was unfamiliar with, like abstract lines and shapes, I found myself feeling liberated. The camera opened my eyes to things that I would never have noticed before. The curving lines on the roads, the shapes of buildings, and the reflections of mirrors and CDs are all a part of our everyday lives, but we move to fast to notice. By taking the time to look around me for the shapes that make up our streets, I was able to notice new and interesting patterns. It isn’t about just looking at something out there in the world and snapping a straight photo of it. Rather it is about looking at what’s out there in a different way and creating exciting and new perspectives. We don’t have to change what is out there to create new realities and abstract ideas, but instead we can change the way we look at things. It’s about finding beauty and freshness in the things that go unnoticed on our streets. work included in group exhibition Appearancesat Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with accompanying book by Martin Harrison. Photography seemed to be an escape for Leiter. Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, his father was a well-known rabbi and Talmudic scholar, and Leiter was encouraged to become a rabbi as well. He left theology school and at 23 moved to New York to pursue painting.Teich, Mitch. “Photographer Saul Leiter in His Own Words: Believing in the Beauty of Simple Things.” WUWM , www.wuwm.com/post/photographer-saul-leiter-his-own-words-believing-beauty-simple-things#stream/0.

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I like a lot of things about 'Early Color', but one of the things that I find most impressive is how essential color is to these images. This might sound obvious, but Leiter is one of relatively few photographers I know whose color work could only work in color. That's not to say that the interplay of colors is the only thing worth looking at in Leiter's photography. Far from it.Nothing about the photographs in 'Early Color' is accidental, and very little is conventional either, especially as regards framing and composition. 'Looking down' is taken from an elevated position, and shows two people on a city street. What might have been a relatively conventional shot is subverted by Leiter's decision to capture them at the very edge of the frame, leaving the majority of the image as a dull grey wash. The walkers are almost out of the picture by the time the shutter is tripped, just about to walk under (or into?) an irregular blue-green diagonal line. Perhaps scaffolding, perhaps the lip of a shopfront marquee, or perhaps the film rebate. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 3. Parents are Wolf Leiter (born Poland) and Regina née Goldberg (born Austria). It is challenging to find ways that color can create abstract images like Leiter did because in Leiter’s case, he was using expired color film which created images that were distinct from reality. Instead of this expired film component, I tried to incorporate his color techniques by looking for bright, strange colors that almost looked out of place as a way to create abstract ideas. Nothing short of spectacular...every image presented here is a mesmerizing masterpiece of light, shape, color, and form. There is a new publication on Saul Leiter, too - including his almost unknown fashion-photography and paintings (!) - from an exhibition in Hamburg, Germany

I have several of Saul Leiter’s books hidden somewhere in my collection, which I haven’t looked at lately. This post was a wonderful reminder of the beauty of his work. Thank you. Happy holiday to you and your family. In 1953, Leiter received a break when Edward Steichen included his work in the show “Always the Young Strangers” at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. “Some of my friends, I think, were jealous, but I didn’t understand,” Leiter recalled in the documentary. “I have sometimes overlooked the fact that something was actually of some importance.” Two years later, Steichen curated the show “The Family of Man,” which would become one of the most influential photography exhibitions ever, but Leiter turned down his invitation to participate. This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2006), which presented Leiter’s remarkable body of colour work to the public for the first time in book form. Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter’s colour photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. circa)Photographs in Harlem for Esquire, with a selection of images published in July 1960 issue alongside James Baldwin’s essay “Fifth Avenue, Uptown.” Rents studio space from fashion photographer John Rawlings. Begins relationship with model Soames Bantry, who moves into Leiter’s East Tenth Street apartment building.

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to New York City’s East Village. Cooperative Tanager Gallery is founded; Leiter works in studio behind gallery. Exhibits drawings in a group show at Tanager. to photograph for Harper’s Bazaarwhen Henry Wolf becomes art director. Three color prints are included in Photographs from the Museum Collectionat MoMA. Lessons We Can Learn from Street Photographer Saul Leiter.” EyeEm , www.eyeem.com/blog/10-lessons-we-can-learn-from-street-photographer-saul-leiter.Early Color at Musée de l’Élysée (Photo Élysée) in Lausanne, Switzerland, with accompanying book Colors published by Idpure Éditions. Exhibition Photographs and Works on Paper at Gallery Fifty One, with accompanying book.